How to authorize only a group of users for Copy Design

[andreas.lazzarotto-pinosch]

Hello 

We are about to migrate to the 2024 suite, and seeing some improvement with the Copy Design tool we will deploy it enterprise wide. 

Yet, we need to first educate our colleges to use it in the boundaries of the company naming policies. 

We therefore need to block the feature to users who should not use it at all and users who have not been trained yet. 

The best practice would be to control that from AD using a User Group in the Vault

An other option would be script based from a custom tool that would read the AD and alter some files if required. 

I tried to play a bit with the files in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Vault Client 2021\Explorer that are name "copyDesignxxxx" and changing there name did not block the usage from the vault interface. 

I also went through the Role administration and did not find anything related to the Copy Design. 

Please note I'm doing those tests with the 2021.3 version of Vault. If something is different in the 2024 version I am not yet aware off, I would be thankful for you to point it out. 

Any suggestion are welcome ! 

Best regards 

Andreas Lazzarotto

[Nick_Hall]

Hi Andreas

I've not tried this but you may be able to hide the Copy Design command using the

Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.Extensibility Namespace > IExplorerExtension Interface : HiddenCommands Method

You could check for group membership before hiding the command

There is a short example here

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2016/02/use-hiddencommands-in-iexplorerextension-to-hid...

Hope this helps

Nick

[andreas.lazzarotto-pinosch]

Thanks for this interesting idea, we will investigate this method. 

Any other suggestions are welcome ! 🙂 

Andreas